Editing Running rigging (section)

===Supporting===
* [[Halyard]]s (sometimes haulyards) are used to raise and lower the yards.<ref name=HowardDoane/>
* [[Clewlines and buntlines|Buntlines]], spaced every few feet along the front of a sail, run from a point on the mast above the yard to the foot (bottom edge) of the sail and serve to raise the foot up for shortening sail or for furling.<ref name = Biddlecombe />
* Lifts adjust the tilt of a yard, to raise or lower the ends off the horizontal.<ref name = Biddlecombe />
* Leechlines run to the [[Parts of a sail#Edges|leech]] (outer vertical edges) of a sail and serve to pull the leech both in and up when furling.<ref name = Biddlecombe />